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Law and Intangible Cultural Heritage in the City

by Sara Ross ...

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.This book addresses the role and protection of intangible cultural heritage in the urban context. Using the methodology of Urban Legal Anthropology, the author provides an ethnographic account ... Read more

$62.99 USD

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.This book addresses the role and protection of intangible cultural heritage in the urban context. Using the methodology of Urban Legal Anthropology, the author provides an ethnographic account
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Dear Work

Something Has to Change

by Sara Ross ...

Narrated by Sara Ross ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

Don’t burn out—stand out.Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do—or at least used to—but feel overwhelmed by it?When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn’t mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work, ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Don’t burn out—stand out.Do you find yourself striving for big goals but running on fumes? Are you ever stuck in the frustrating cycle of overworking and under-living? Do you love the work you do—or at least used to—but feel overwhelmed by it?When it comes to work and our relationship with it, something has to change. This doesn’t mean you need to bound out of bed every day in love with your work,
... Read more
The Fourth Durango

by Ross Thomas, Sara Paretsky ...

An "entertaining" noir thriller about a disgraced judge forced into hiding after being released from prison "can be pleasantly devoured in one sitting" ( Los Angeles Times ).The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango is a hideout business, a place ... Read more

$17.29 USD

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An "entertaining" noir thriller about a disgraced judge forced into hiding after being released from prison "can be pleasantly devoured in one sitting" ( Los Angeles Times ).The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango is a hideout business, a place
... Read more

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It Happened at the Ball

by Sherwood Smith, Francesca Forrest, Marissa Doyle, Gillian Polack, Layla Lawlor, Phyllis Irene Radford, Deborah J. Ross, Marie Brennan, Sara Stamey, P. G. Nagle, Brenda Clough, Lynne Tucker, Charlotte Gumanaam ...

The pleasure of your company is requested.Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.Eyes behind jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.Gloved hands touching fleetingly—or gripping swords...Anything can happen at a ball.You are invited to enjoy these stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats ... Read more

$4.99 USD

The pleasure of your company is requested.Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.Eyes behind jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.Gloved hands touching fleetingly—or gripping swords...Anything can happen at a ball.You are invited to enjoy these stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats
... Read more
Linking Sustainability and Happiness

Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Edited by Scott Cloutier, Sara El-Sayed, Allison Ross, Melanie Weaver ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
The book offers critical discussion, constructive insights and informed guidance for future research and applied work that can move us closer towards a sustainable society. This is the first comprehensive edited book linking sustainability and happiness. By doing so, it frames modern society’s pursuit of happiness as the ultimate wicked problem challenging sustainable life on earth. Chapters in ... Read more

$143.99 USD

The book offers critical discussion, constructive insights and informed guidance for future research and applied work that can move us closer towards a sustainable society. This is the first comprehensive edited book linking sustainability and happiness. By doing so, it frames modern society’s pursuit of happiness as the ultimate wicked problem challenging sustainable life on earth. Chapters in
... Read more
Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

Cinema, Television, and the Archive

Edited by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams ...

Series series AFI Film Readers
The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format’s inherent intermediality; its mediation of ... Read more

$62.99 USD

The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format’s inherent intermediality; its mediation of
... Read more
Cinematic Canines

Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film

by Adrienne L. McLean, Joanna E. Rapf, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Jeremy Groskopf, Sara Ross, James Castonguay, Kelly Wolf, Aaron Skabelund, Jane O'Sullivan, Giuliana Lund0, Elizabeth Leane1, Guinevere Narraway2, Murray Pomerance3, Alexandra Horowitz4 ...

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Dogs have been part of motion pictures since the movies began. They have been featured onscreen in various capacities, from any number of “man’s best friends” (Rin Tin Tin, Asta, Toto, Lassie, Benji, Uggie, and many, many more) to the psychotic Cujo. The contributors to Cinematic Canines take a close look at Hollywood films and beyond in order to show that the popularity of dogs on the screen
... Read more
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Here to Stay

by Sara Farizan ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

5 hours 57 min

For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy that Bijan is the man ... Read more

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For most of high school, Bijan Majidi has flown under the radar. He gets good grades, reads comics, hangs out with his best friend, Sean, and secretly crushes on Elle, one of the most popular girls in his school. When he's called off the basketball team's varsity bench and makes the winning basket in a playoff game, everything changes in an instant. But not everyone is happy that Bijan is the man
... Read more

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Slavery's Descendants

Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation

by Jill Strauss, Jill Strauss, Shannon LaNier, A.B. Westrick, Grant Hayter-Menzies, Joseph McGill, R. Gregory Nokes, Antoinette Broussard, Catherine Sasanov0, Leslie Stainton1, Rodney G Williams2, Eileen Jackson3, Karen Branan4, Stephanie Harp5, Sharon Morgan6, Bill Sizemore7, Karen Stewart-Ross8, Sara Jenkins9, David Terrett Beumée0, Debian Marty1, Tammarrah Lee2, Elissa Pearmain3, Sarah Kohrs4, Betty Kilby-Baldwin5, Phoebe Kilby6, Fabrice Guerrier7, Dionne Ford9, Thomas Norman DeWolf0 ...

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States’ histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Race remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States’ histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with
... Read more
Digital Video Advertising Strategies

Grow your Brand with Online Videos

by Nirma Jayawardena, Mitchell Ross, Sara Quach, Park Thaichon, Abhishek Behl ...

In an age of rapid technological evolution, Digital Video Advertising Strategies: Grow Your Brand with Online Videos provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the complex world of digital marketing. From 3D video and augmented reality (AR), to virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and high-definition video, this edited volume systematically outlines ... Read more

$86.99 USD

In an age of rapid technological evolution, Digital Video Advertising Strategies: Grow Your Brand with Online Videos provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the complex world of digital marketing. From 3D video and augmented reality (AR), to virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and high-definition video, this edited volume systematically outlines
... Read more
On New Shores

Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America

by Carl F. Auerbach, James D. Bachmeier, John W. Berry, Scott Coltrane, Jeffrey Cookston, Roberto M. De Anda, Uwe Gielen, Donald J. Hernandez, Ronit Kahana Kalman, Akira Kanatsu, Eunjung Kim, Michael E. Lamb, Suzanne E. Macartney, Alfredo Mirandé, Erika Y. Niwa, Ross D. Parke, Aris Peguero, Norma Perez-Brena, Joseph H. Pleck, Sara Tocher Rosse, Louise Bordeaux Silverstein, Yanjie Su, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Eric Vega, Carrie Z. Woldenberg, Hiro Yoshikawa, Ruth Chu-Lien Chao, Nancy A. Denton ...

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of fathering across various ethnic groups remains limited. Throughout Canada and the United States, the ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of fathering across various ethnic groups remains limited. Throughout Canada and the United States, the
... Read more
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Top 10 Poets – The American Women, The

Five poems each from some of the best American female poets ever

by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Amy Lowell, Anne Bradstreet, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Edna St Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale ...

Narrated by Liza Ross, Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be ... Read more

$14.99 USD

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be
... Read more

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